25 projects, including Lakehouse,
a community in Denver that aims to
be the first certified Well multi-family
building in Colorado; her design
focuses specifically on supporting
occupant wellbeing and natural
circadian rhythms. Her commitment
to designing human-centric spaces
has resulted in more than two
dozen design awards. She frequently
presents on subjects such as
circadian lighting solutions for office
workplaces (Lightfair 2018) and is
regional coordinator for the Rocky
Mountain chapter of the IALD.

‘One of the biggest barriers to
understanding lighting’s impact on
health and wellbeing,’ she says, ‘is the
lack of standards and metrics.’

‘Everyone deserves good
lighting – from transit
workers on the night shift
to kids in the classroom to
employees at a corporation’

Shigeki FujiiNipekSingapore

Shigeki Fujii co-founded Nipek with
Natsuko Ueda, also an ‘alumnus’
of Lighting Planners Associates
in Singapore and Tokyo. He has a
Master’s in architectural lighting design
from the Hochshule Wismar, Germany,
and studied design at Kyushu
University, Japan. Outside Nipek, he
is an adjunct lecturer at Singapore
University of Technology and Design
and has also designed temporary
experimental lighting installations
to show how new technologies
might transform the discipline. With
increasing demand in the Asia Pacific
region ‘it would be easy to be lazy,’
he says. ‘However there are exciting
opportunities for lighting designers if
we break out of our comfort zones.’

Federico FaveroKTH Lighting DesigndepartmentStockholm

Federico Favero describes himself
as a ‘lecturer and researcher in
lighting design, an IALD educator
and a Lighting Detective.’ He is the
programme director for the Master’s
in Architectural Lighting Design at the
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
in Stockholm, Sweden, and director
of its Lighting Laboratory, which he
joined in 2006. His own studies are
leading towards a PhD on the impact
of lighting on wellbeing in 2019.

His thesis at KTH focused on time,
light and space and their effects on
human experience, and followed
an MSc in industrial design (lighting
design) from the Politecnico di Milano
in Italy, his birth-country.